Posted by Vince Morgan on 04/18/07 14:14

"Mitul" <patel.mitul.m@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1176901324.638671.264900@b75g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
> Hello Friend,
>
> I am having very strange problem with mail function. As I have to
> implement Newsletter things in my hebrew site. I have implemented
> everything but having problem with subject line is not display on any
> one of mail services. Mail display body part properly in hebrew but
> subject line having problem its display junk character in subject. I
> am not able figure out what is the actual problem.
>
> Please help me for this matter.
>
> Regards,
> Mitul Patel.
>
The following is an old rfc (1993) and states
quote
"
All Hebrew text when transferred via e-mail must first be translated
into ISO-8859-8, and then encoded using either Quoted-Printable
(preferable) or Base64, as defined in MIME.

The following table provides the four most common Hebrew encodings:

PC IBM PC ISO
Hebrew 8859-8
letter 8-bit 7-bit 8-bit
Ascii EBCDIC Ascii Ascii
---------- ----- ------ ----- ------
alef 128 41 96 224
bet 129 42 97 225
gimel 130 43 98 226
dalet 131 44 99 227
he 132 45 100 228
vav 133 46 101 229
zayin 134 47 102 230
het 135 48 103 231
tet 136 49 104 232
yod 137 51 105 233
kaf sofit 138 52 106 234
kaf 139 53 107 235
lamed 140 54 108 236

MIME Considerations

Mail that is sent that contains Hebrew must contain the following
minimum amount of MIME headers:

MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-8
Content-transfer-encoding: BASE64 | Quoted-Printable

"unquote.

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1555.txt
HTH
Vince

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